Moppity Vineyards Lock & Key Pinot Noir 2024

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Moppity Lock&Key Pinot Noir 2024.

Moppity Vineyards Lock & Key Pinot Noir 2024
$30, 13% alcohol, screwcap, Tumbarumba.

The feet, below the surface, are paddling furiously in this well-structured Pinot Noir. It leads with ripe macerated cherry flavours and that’s its main shtick, but below the fruit there are complex characters of woodsmoke, undergrowth, dried herbs and peppercorns. Dry strings of tannin are well managed here, while a smoked-flowers aspect gives the wine an extra, exotic edge, and quite a bit of interest. There’s good drinking to be had here. 91 points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been a respected wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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